Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Speaking Tree Website | November 24, 2014

Positive thinking is the most important quality of a man or a woman. Positive thinking is the source of all kinds of good things. Positive thinking ensures good health and a sound mind, it enables you to do right planning and helps you manage a crisis. Positive thinking results in super achievement.

Why are men and women deprived of positive thinking? The only reason for this is that they fail to unfold their reservoir of nature. Every person is born with eyes, but if a person shuts his eyes he will not be able to see anything. So is the case with positive thinking; it comes naturally to every person. The opposite of positive thinking is negative thinking. Negative thinking is like shutting one's eyes. If you want to live as a positive thinker, try to save yourself from negative thought. Positive thinking is the inner quality of a person. While negative thinking comes from outside. For negative thinking, extra effort is required, while for positive thinking you need to only open your eyes.

The problem in this regard is that we are living in society. Man is a social animal. He is bound to live in a society. What is a society? Society means living among differences. Difference is a part of nature. So every man is born as Mr Different and every woman is born as Ms Different. Society is like a combination of opposites.

It is this difference that creates problem. When you face a situation which is not in accordance with your desires, you become provoked. Then a chain reaction sets in-leading to anger, revenge, negative thinking, and violence. It is this phenomenon that deprives you of positive thinking.

Then, the other problem is that everyone is prone to conditioning. The process of conditioning starts with every negative experience. And, conditioning gradually becomes a part of the unconscious mind. The occasional negative experience, because of the conditioning process, comes to acquire a permanent part of our personality until a time comes when it becomes an integral part of one's personality. One loses consciousness that it is an evil of which one should get rid as soon as possible.

To overcome this problem one has to develop a habit, that is, the art of silence. When any negative thought comes to your mind, do not react, but keep silent. Make yourself an empty mind for a moment. Then the whole thing will settle down.

Fortunately, nature is very helpful towards us in this regard. Apart from other qualities, there is a unique quality in human nature, that is, the cooling down faculty. The only condition is that we should give a chance to nature. When we are faced with some unwanted situation, a flood of negative thoughts is triggered in us. But if we only keep quiet, the cooling down faculty disperses the negativity on its own. It changes the direction of the flood and within seconds it gets dispersed. Keep silent for thirty seconds. Everything will be normalized as if nothing had happened at all.